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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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HaifaPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was short but varied: I had two interviews, each an hour.

Both rounds included one technical question, and leadership principles showed up in both as well.

I also had an AI-usage related question, and one of the rounds was introduced by a hiring manager with a variation of a top-k style problem where the setup didn’t provide an API. In the technical portion, there was also a restaurant-manager style scenario involving groups coming in, which made it feel more application-like than purely textbook coding.

I didn’t receive an offer. The overall feel was that they wanted the combination of principled judgment and practical problem-solving, even

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